Gamespot Readers Push Back

From the article: "According to a forum thread on their site, more than 400 of Gamespot's paid subscribers have already cancelled their subscriptions in direct protest of the move, with many more vowing to do so if Gamespot and parent company CNET do not answer up to the fairly heavy charges of putting advertising dollars ahead of editorial integrity."

OMG, Gamespot just lost a whole $16,000 (vs hundreds of thousands from sponsers) /sarcasm

IMO, Gamespot users are the worst. They're generally immature and uninformed as hell. Once this situation fades away (in about 3-4 weeks), the subscribers will come back like dumb sheep. Gamespot users are dense like that.

But seriously, only an idiot would pay for a site where most of the stuff is free. I doubt CNET is stressing over this because most of their revenue comes from ads.

Gamespot is a better place without Jeff Gerstmann. Bring in the new, better blood.

He might get this review right but how about all the other ones?? Do we know that he got bribed for other games that he reviewed? Gamespot review no longer have any credibility..I dont support anyone working at gamespot... Jeff is not the only reason why they pulling out..Its the fact that their accepting money to give high scores. Its really shameful that all this need to happen and now we will be caution about other reviews out there for game from now on..

he was honest, but what some people don't understand is how he presented the review, very harsh, even mean, and at one point even swore?, I wont curse this guy, but he needs to chill a bit, not be so uptight.

This is good the gaming community has spoken. Every real gamer out there has spoken we dont want gamespot. all they want is money, there greedy. I cancelled my account and i hope every one elso does the same, lets not support these guys no more.

man, its still only speculation. we dont know for sure what happened. i hate gamespot just as much as a bunch of other ppl, but we are on a witch hunt that i dont see justified yet. i do hope their protest and cancellation brings the truth out so i can hate the truth, not the speculation.

Everytime someone on here doesn't like a review from this site and countless others they cry foul not to trust the sites to begin with. I don't see what all the fuss is about. Some on here actually are having issues with this guy getting fired for being honest. I respect that. The others, are just bit*hing just to bi*ch. If he never got fired some of the very same people here would be bi*ching about a review from fanboys talking about how too good of a score was to fanboys talking about how low a score was for their favorite game.

Gamespot has been being biased and stupid for a long time. Having the wrong people review games and just bad journalism.... maybe not bad but imho unenjoyable compared to others.

This is a good thing in that it will be a sign to the game industry. We the gamers wont take this crap. We are just as powerful as the big wigs in the industry and they know by now that we can make a statement if we like.

It is our money that those game companies are using to bribe the reviewers. Our voices should be heard and with the internet there should be no way that any review site can carry on doing this with their reviews.

I'm canceling my account later in December. It's not because of protest but because it doesn't seem like it has been worth it lately and now that both Jeff and Rich are gone, the site doesn't feel the same.

Jeff was fired for being unprofessional. For example saying that the characters are ugly and unlikable without saying why. It's like if I was paid to tell you what's wrong with products and I just said it sucks. Thats it. Also complaining about language in a game based on criminals? That'd be like saying "The usual suspects" is a bad movie because their is so much swears! Jeff isn't a hero or honest he just sucks at his job. Hey Jeff don't let the door hit your back on the way out!

i watched that review, and there was nothing at all unprofessional about it. He concisely explains that you can't even like the protagonist in a "cool anti-hero" way. He goes on to say this was because the writing was lazy and uninspired. The reason why his personal opinion on characters is very very important for this specific review, is because of kane and lynch is supposed to be a very story driven game. MAny film reviewers cite "unlikable" characters as being a reason they didnt like the film. With a game its interactive, so you could blot the charactes out. But then If you watch the video he goes in detail about why the gameplay also flops. "unprofessional?" please.

Compared to IGN's and Gametrailer's video reviews, Jeff's video reviews are VERY unprofessional. He shows up with a t-shirt and a damn pot belly burbing out the f-bomb (watch the Kane and Lynch video review on youtube; he says the f-bomb, it had to be edited out later).

Jeff's Gamespot video reviews can't stand up against and are very unprofessional when put side-by-side vs. the 'competition's' (IGN and Gametrailers) video reviews.